Job 22:6
Good News Translation
To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.

New Revised Standard Version
For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Contemporary English Version
To guarantee payment of a debt, you have taken clothes from innocent people.

New American Bible
You keep your relatives’ goods in pledge unjustly, leave them stripped naked of their clothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

For thou

Job 24:3,9 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge. . . .

Exodus 22:26 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Deuteronomy 24:10-18 When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge: . . .

Ezekiel 18:7,12,16 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: . . .

Amos 2:8 And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

stripped, etc.

Job 24:10 From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Job 31:19,20 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: . . .

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
5And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities? 6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:26
If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Deuteronomy 24:6
Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

Job 24:3
They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:7
They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Job 24:9
They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Job 31:19
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Job 31:20
If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

Ezekiel 18:16
And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge, nor taken away with violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment:

Job 22:5
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